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“Titanfall” Beta Review

Titanfall is the new innovation for first person shooters.

Titanfall was created by a co-creator of the “Call of Duty” franchise, along with some of the game developers. For a triple A title this game was only developed with a few developers in a new gaming company call “Respond”. One can tell that the game developers put the best aspects of first person shooting from experiences working on “Call of Duty”.

The game plays fantastic with amazing next gen graphics. The entire game is multiplayer. The beta only includes the basic game types like team death match, domination, and capture the flag. One of the most interesting aspects of the game is the moment of the pilot the player control. The player’s character in the game is called the “Pilot”. The pilot has a standard setup like in call of duty, guns, grenades, perks, etc. The pilot’s movement involves a jet pack which lets the player wall run, and double jump. Going from point A, to point B has never been better. Rushing past the enemy could only just take few seconds with the right creative mind.

The whole point of the game is not about the players though, it is about the Titans. Titans are giant robots that the pilots can get into at a certain times in the game. The player will have full control over their mech, with counts amounts of ability for the pilot to use. One of the abilities are that the titan can stop the bullets or missiles from the other titan and shoot them back all at once. Begging in a titan certainly makes that pilot have the advantage towards other pilots without titans. When it comes to a 50 foot robot with a full arsenal going against a 6 foot pilot carrying maybe an assault rifle, the outcome is pretty obvious.

Not to say that the pilot can’t take down a titan, the player just has to be smart about it. The pilot is equipped with a weapon to take down a titan, but mainly from a distances. The pilot can also sneak up on a titan, and destroy it from the inside.

The multiplayer is very different from other games. It is very cinematic, and immersive. Playing multiplayer actually feels like it matters, they have it very story driven even if a match only last 5 or 8 minutes. A great feature that they added in their multiplayer is AI players, which are soldiers named grunts that the game is only allowed to control. It makes the game easer to play because the AI players are not that good at the game. That makes the game stand out from “Call of Duty”, cause in “Call of Duty” players knows if their good or not which can make the game frustrating. Were as in “Titanfall” everyone can just have fun.

Matches start the same every time jumping out of an air ship to the multiplayer map, but it ends different for both sides. Depending on if the player wins, or loses in the match, the losing team has to escape to an air ship to transport them off of the match. While the wining team has to destroy the pilots or the transportations ships to stop anyone from leaving from the enemy team.

“Titanfall” comes out March 11th, and you do not want to miss this gem of games. This is the game that starts the year off on triple A titles for next gen consoles.

Damn I’m so hyped up about this game, unfortunately I was not able to participate in the beta, because of my work schedules. Anyway this game looks amazing, I was able to watch some people stream the beta while I was working and this game looks awesome, the “parkour” aspect mixed with a fps and then throwing in giant mechs, how can that be a bad idea. Nice review!

Great review. Reading your description of the game has me wanting to play right now. I recently played it for the first time. I’m not a very big fan of Call of Duty. In fact, I pretty much hate it now. I only play it if friends are insist . Most of the games in the COD franchise tend to be carbon copies of each other. Not Titanfall though. I was completely blown away by how epic it was. The mechanic and all around feel of the game were spot on. My friend had to fight to give him back the control. Needless to say i think ill be getting an Xbox One for the sole purpose of playing this game (I take that back, there are several future games I have to play too).